Peter Levin of Lionsgate (left) and David Jagneaux of UploadVR at GamesBeat 2016.
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Lionsgate’s Peter Levin on the convergence of VR games and entertainment

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Peter Levin has been running the game and investments division at Lionsgate, one of Hollywood’s biggest studios, for two years. And he is so bullish about virtual reality that Lionsgate is working with 11 partners on more than a dozen VR projects that are targeted at both hardcore and casual gamers.

One of those projects is John Wick: The Impossible Task, a first-person shooter based on the action movie franchise starring actor Keanu Reeves. Levin said that the studio got excited because there were so many VR creators coming out of the woodworks with an “unprecedented appetite” to create new VR content.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.